Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar regardless of what I'm saying 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job to teach. His first school his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

There's been some research in cognitive science I'm told that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are as Pascal puts it so made that they cannot believe. To us when people talk about faith it's white noise.

Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses ' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting then I realised it was me.